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pre-ˈeminently, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a pre-eminent manner or degree; in the highest degree; very highly, supremely.
1747D. Mallet Amyntor & Theodora ii. 190 From another's fate, Pre-eminently wretched, learn thy own. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 149 The argument of this pre-eminently learned Judge. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxix. 587 The region indicated is preeminently a cotton-field. 1884Pae Eustace 83 This was pre-eminently a marriage of convenience on both sides. So pre-ˈeminentness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |